It’s not every day you can buy a five megapixel digital camera for around £110 but with the Olympus D-435 / C-180 , you can. It has a very simple-to-use ethos thanks to a set of clearly marked ‘one button, one function’ controls. There’s a slide away on/off switch on the front, a shutter button on the top and a set of simple controls on the back plate accompanying the 1.5-ich colour screen.
A mode dial provides eight subject modes, including a 320×240-pixel movie mode with 30fps shooting ability. Other modes include portrait, snow/beach and spots and landscape modes to name a few and you have an auto and Program setting for point’n’shooting or for a tad more control respectively. There’s no manual sensitivity (ISO) control, it’s fully automatic between ISO50 and ISO250 adjusted depending on the brightness of the scene you’re shooting.